On the Shooting of Yellow Land

Generally speaking, to do something, you must have an idea, or an idea.

There is an old saying: "... so people who are good at painting must be interested in writing first." I'd rather realize it than write it. I can't write meaningless. I don't know what it means, but I just can't write it. The pen came unexpectedly and hasn't arrived yet. "

This area is the land where Emperor Xuanyuan, the ancestor of China, cultivated and fought, and it is the cradle of the nation. When filming here, you always have to think a lot.

We want to show the vastness of the sky, we want to show low and heavy; I want to show that the water of the Yellow River flows thousands of miles, and I want to show that the national spirit is constantly striving for self-improvement; I want to show people's cries and strength that glow from primitive ignorance, and I want to show thrilling songs that sprout from barren loess; I want to show people's fate and feelings-love, hate, tenacity, fragility, ignorance and kindness's desire and pursuit of light. ...

It's better to think forever than to do it.

"Take the upper method, take the middle method." "Take the law in the middle, so I am next."

"Draw three inches vertically, when it is a kilometer high; A few feet across the ink is a hundred miles. "

theme

The theme of this film is difficult to say in one sentence. In my opinion, if it is a story against buying and selling marriage, it is better to say that it permeates the deep love for people, the land and the persistent pursuit of light.

Fengge

It is a high-pitched and melodious stroll in the heaven, a ravine cut by a knife and axe, a waist drum like a spring thunder, and a quietly flowing and sighing Yellow River.

"Profound and rich"-this is the simplest explanation.

Photographic tone

Zhuangzi said: "Carving is both cutting and returning to simplicity."

Whole-piece modeling treatment

1. color

"Yellow cattle, land and people have the same skin color." Needless to say, yellow is the main color of this film.

It is calm khaki, not jumping bright yellow.

Yellow, with black thick cotton-padded jacket, white sheep belly towel and red wedding dress.

Yellow, black, white, red and yellow are land, white is clothes, white is purity, and red is yearning.

Don't paint bright colors in the school year, take them simple and rich.

lamplight

Because the loess plateau is almost white in harsh sunlight, and considering the calm and warm atmosphere of the soil, the word "soft" is the main light treatment of this film. Outdoor lighting mostly uses light effect in the morning and evening, while indoor lighting uses a lot of scattered light and soft light.

In individual scenes, consciously use bright sunshine to form a big contrast and strengthen the visual impression-this is the need of drama and content. "Hard-to-write scenery, like at present, contains endless meanings, which can be seen between the lines." The artistic conception of the picture is first produced by light.

Step 3: Composition

"Concise and steady" is the purpose of the composition. "Those who think are good at application, and those who delete are good at deletion." The picture resolutely excludes unnecessary things, emphasizes simplicity, and emphasizes the heavy feeling of a large area.

Different from one and eight, it is not a powerful shock, but a quiet beauty. Composition does not seek novelty and boldness, but simplicity and completeness.

take exercise

In order to create a deep and heavy feeling, try not to move. Through the organic scheduling inside the lens, through the actions of the actors, it forms a whole with the lens that is not very moving, resulting in a visual impression with both layering and change. Film is a moving art, but film photography is not necessarily just a "moving" technology.

"The thickness of the mountain is the depth, and the water is still."

Several specific technologies

According to the needs of the content-this is fundamental.

Unity is in the director's idea-this is the premise.

1. Repeat

The whole film uses a lot of repeated shots of the same scene, the same lens position, the same lens focal length and even the same aperture.

"Do it at sunrise and rest at sunset." In this way, the Chinese nation has come a long way. Day after day, there are national pains, joys, longings and struggles. The same picture often contains and reproduces different qualities.

Step 3: Jump lightly

The whole movie is soft, but there are two jumps:

Waist drum-harsh and bright sunshine! This is the song of turning over the peasants. This is a freshman.

Begging for rain-harsh and bright sunshine! This is the plaintive cry of farmers distorted by spirit. This is death, and when you die, you are born.

Some digressions

Young people in the 1980s are often called "modern youth". The so-called "modernity" means abandoning tradition. In fact, in the conception of future movies, we have benefited a lot from Lao Tzu's words: "generosity is uneven, greatness is a late bloomer, and elephants are invisible."